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Meng Wanzhou

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Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer and deputy chair of the board of Chinese tech giant Huawei, was impr...

Albert "Nuh" Washington

New Afrikan Black Liberation Army prisoner of war, born in New York City. A Black Panther Party member, he was...

Oscar Washington

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Oscar Washington was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He was arrested on Feb...

Robert Webb

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Robert Webb was a Field Marshal of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party and one of the original Pan...

Abraham Weidinger

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Abraham Weidinger was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union cloakmakers’ union member detained in the...

Louis Weinstock

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Louis Weinstock was a Brooklyn house-painter, longtime organizer for the painters union, and treasurer of the...

William Weinstone

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William Weinstone was a writer, labor organizer, editor, and founding member of the Communist Party USA. He or...

Donald Earl Wetzel

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Donald Earl Wetzel was an American novelist, humanist, and antiwar activist imprisoned for conscientious draft...

Anthony “Kimu” White

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Anthony “Kimu” White, also known as Kimu Olugbala, was associated with the Black Liberation Army. He was detai...

Alden Whitman

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Alden Whitman, a New York Times copy editor, was one of six people indicted for contempt of Congress in Decemb...

Cathy Wilkerson

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Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson was a Weather Underground organizer and one of the two surviving members of the March...

Bevelyn Beatty Williams

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Bevelyn Beatty Williams, 31, of Ooltewah TN, co-founder of At The Well Ministries, was sentenced July 24, 2024...

Ruth Williams

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Ruth Williams was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the une...

Harry Winitsky

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Harry Winitsky, a leader of the Communist Party from New York City, was sentenced to a five- to ten-year priso...

Henry Winston

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ONE OF TWELVE COMMUNISTS SENTENCED UNDER DENNIS V. UNITED STATES: Henry M. Winston, a leader of the communist...

Julius Woolf

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Julius Woolf was an International Ladies Garment Workers Union union member detained in the prosecution arisin...

Gustus Wortsmann

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Gustus Wortsmann was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

Jacob Wortsmann

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Jacob Wortsmann was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

Art Young

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Wisconsin-born socialist cartoonist for Puck, Life, The Masses, and later The Liberator and The New Masses. In...

Martin Young

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Martin Young was a labor organizer (Transport Workers Union and Steelworkers) arrested on October 26, 1951 and...

Mohamed Yousry

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Mohammed Yousry was an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at York College and court appointed translator...

John Peter Zenger

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John Peter Zenger was the New York printer whose acquittal on a charge of seditious libel became the founding...

Emile de Antonio

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Emile de Antonio was a Marxist American documentary filmmaker known for Point of Order (1964), In the Year of...

Franz von Rintelen

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Franz von Rintelen Captain Franz von Rintelen was a German Imperial Navy officer who ran German covert operati...